Chip Wiegand wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/10/2005 01:24:32 AM:
Hello Chip,
If you are using the Docbook XSL stylesheets and the FOP processor to
generate the pdf file the empty page seems to be a bug in FOP. In the
XSL-FO file generated by the stylesheets the pages that follow the title
and copyright pages start a new page sequence. The FOP processor should
not generate an empty page for a break-after property before a new
page sequence. To avoid that use in your transformation scenario a
Docbook XSL customization layer that replaces the template
book.titlepage.separator with an empty template:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:import href="../frameworks/docbook/xsl/fo/docbook.xsl"/>
<xsl:template name="book.titlepage.separator"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks for the help, I have my own .xsl stylesheet already so I added your
suggested code to it and it works fine. It would only work with the code -
<xsl:template name="book.titlepage.separator"/> - and not the other stuff,
I already have the other lines in my .xsl. But what I don't understand is
why that one line does anything at all? I don't see anything there to tell
the processor to do anything. I must not be understanding it correctly.
Hello Chip,
That line added to your stylesheet shortcircuits the default template
"book.titlepage.separator" from the imported docbook.xsl template
because the problem is in that template and we don't want it executed.
It is a general XSLT technique. You can read more about importing
stylesheets and import precedence in the XSLT specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#import
So, here's another one I hope can be fixed by just adding a bit of code to
the .xsl -
How do I define a smaller size font for chapter titles? I found some info
in the Docbook manual, chapter 5, on customizing Docbook, but that looks
way too complicated for what I want to do.
I think you mean Norman Walsh's DocBook: The Definitive Guide. You don't
need that. You need Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide. Look at:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitleFontSizes.html#ChapterTitles
Use the first method - customizing the titlepage specification file. You
have to customize the chapter title specification in
titlepage.templates.xml: in the *titlepage* element with the
*element="chapter"* attribute change the value of the *font-size*
attribute inside the *titlepage-content* element. First read the
introduction from:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitleFontSizes.html
Regards,
Chip
Best regards,
Sorin
I just tried it on a large Docbook document and the empty page is not
generated any more. You have to replace the path to the docbook.xsl
stylesheet with a valid path on your machine.
For instructions about creating and using a Docbook customization layer
in <oXygen/> see the demo:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/DocbookCustomization/docbookCustomization.html
Best regards,
Sorin
Chip Wiegand wrote:
When I create a .pdf from my file I get an extra page that contains
only a
horizontal line at the top and bottom of the page. This page is always
the
3rd page of the document -
1st page - Cover page or Title page
2nd page - Copyright page
3rd page - empty except for two horizontal lines
4th page onwards - chapter 1 and onwards
Is the mostly blank page supposed to be there? If not, what do I do to
get
rid of it?
I just noticed that the toc is not appearing on the page, could this
page
be a blank toc?
Regards,
Chip Wiegand
Computer Services
Simrad, Inc
425-778-8821
425-771-7211 (FAX)
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